Whoop de doo... my subsription is about to expire in a couple of days, anyone have any extra points they might want to get rid of for a noble cause? I got a taste of honey and now I have a sweet tooth...

A little late with this feature, but I have been having some issues at home with renovating the place. So... this feature is for a guy who has always managed to pleasantly surprise me with his stunning photographs.He's from Germany.

I have been watching him for quite awhile and I will tell you this: his work is worth browsing. If you're not convinced, check out these samples from his gallery:

Seing as how it's the first time I have a subscription, I wanted to help promote some of you out there and decided to start a weekly feature, which will consist basically of an artist's work appearing in my journal with a short description of what I think of that person's deviations and skills.

So here it goes, the first feature is dedicated to: .

It's a bit ballzy to march on streight ahead and feature such a wonderful artist, seing as how I don't have the necessary know-how to describe his great work, but my watchers deserve to know about what he does. As someone commented on his page, every new submission from him is a new surprise, you may expect it to be something and then it catches you by surprise and dazzles your mind with superb conceptual work which he mostly does in ballpoint pen and then eventually gives a great make-up in Photoshop. Now, without further ado, I give you the work of Lucian Staculescu:

For those of you who forgot who I was or if was still alive, I'm back with deviations and I salute you.

This time however, since I can't find the time or inspiration to go traditional with pencils and paper and seeing as how web interfaces and such digital media has taken most of my time (besides school), I decided to submit some of my work, to share it with those of you interested in what else I've been doing lately... so, feel free to browse my gallery for such deviations.

Also, pretty soon I will be launching my website online again, improved and nicer than before, so stay tuned.

Another school year is coming to close and thus I am entering my 4 week exam period. It'll be a blast, especially now that I got my hand on a new tablet, a Wacom Bamboo A6 Wide. Can't wait for the exams to pass ok (all 5 of them) so I could get back on the horse... well, actually the desk chair, and start drawing again. I kind of got the taste for digital art with this tablet. It's an amazing instrument for these purposes, never knew it could be so flexible and comfortable. I recommend this product to anyone, it's totally worth the money.

You can check out my first work with the Bamboo on this butterfly, a Vanessa cardui specimen. great for detailed work, only that being my first drawing it has tons of flaws... lucky for me I'll have time to learn and improve my skills (took awhile to get used to it).

Summer's "almost" gone, actually it's been gone for quite some time now, but for me, the so called summer break has ended and so has my time spent in the United States. After a summer in Atlantic City NJ I'm finally back home, up and running!

I have a couple of drawings pending to be finished, one of which I think will come out quite soon. I bought myself some new General's charcoal pencils and charcoal bars with which I hope to make some interesting work on paper. Inspiration is without lack in this period, time being of the essence. As long as I have the time to draw something, thoughts will surely flow from the tip of my pencil.

Also, I hope to upgrade my website as soon as possible, just as soon as I get my new desktop PC home and ready. Hope to see more of your art soon! (it took me awhile to browse the some 1,400 deviations and I don't know how many journals, but I did it! :"> )

Dearest deviant artists and friends, for the summer I'll take a break from deviantART due to the fact that in this time I'm in Atlantic City, NJ, with the Work & Travel programm. I'm working at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa.My internet conection sucks because I have to goto a nearby wireless area, 'cause I don't have internet at my home here, so no news from me for a while.I've been working on another drawing which I'll post when I get the chance. i already have the WIPs ready. I'll see when I have the time to show it to you all.Also I haven't been been able to check all your new deviations, but I'll get to it soon.

It's been a while since my last personal journal, therefore I decided to take a little off my time to make up a little gathering of words around here. I won't be that active on DeviantART soon, because my exam session is coming up fast and I have tons of papers to study and get inside my head. I already have three deviations pending to be finished but haven't yet found the time to do so, hope I would finish them soon and publish them as well, for your eyes to see. I wish you all the best things you can think of for the upcoming new year and may your new 365 day experience be as prosperous as the previous, if not more.

The DeviantART club dedicated to the Romanian band Transsylvania Phoenix is now officially open. We still need to fiddle around a bit, but basically the club is open to all those interested in joining it. The rules for joining the club can be found here.

As long as you stick by them, the staff members shall verify the information you present and confirm your arrival at the club. Viewing the club's DeviantART page can be done by simply clicking the icon below, in the "Clubs" section.

I know I have been slacking of regarding my drawing, but the thing is, time is now of the essence for me, and with the freshman year at the university and the several other projects I had to do, I really found it hard to make time for anything as little as a speck of graphite... unfortunately, not even charcoal. I hope to find the time to place my thoughts on a sheet of paper once more, because the inspiration is here, I'm just waiting for the time.

On another level, I managed finishing my website in a rather short period of time... well, I actually redid it, so I had some of the old contents at my disposal. I was done completely in Adobe Flash and it was a handful (tired of keyframes). It's basically a portfolio of my work, yet I'm sorry I couldn't fit enough drawings in there, the browsing would have taken too long, but I have a link to my deviant gallery (I'll let you find it). Feel free to visit it at Sandman Arts and let me in on your opinion about everything.

"So fell autumn leaves, and the season of the fall is upon us once more with this new year. Whether it is the smell of dry leaves crushing beneath your feet as you you walk upon sidewalks paved in gold, orange and red colors, whether you open the windows as the morning air slides gently in your chamber as if it were waiting patiently all night to comfort you with it's sent or if you simply happens to be caught on your way, to another place, by a rainy cloud, hovering above you as you seek shelter from beneath it, the red-leaf-season is here. The crops have been harvested, the wine left to settle, the winter wood carefully laid piece upon piece in an old shed... everything starts to drift towards a sort of lack of life, flawlessly ending in a sea of colored leaves, each one dancing it's ways through the branches towards the ground on which we step... crushing each of these small wanderers... releasing that sent... that uniques smell that gently makes it's way to our hearts instead of our noses, that one time we all know day shortens... as night prevailes... that time of autumn..."

Well... it would seem that mrs. Ancuta did me the honour of tagging me... so... I ought to post the fact bellow...

1. Post these rules.2. Each person tagged must post eight random (hopefully interesting) facts about themselves.3. Tagged people should write a journal of these facts.4. At the end, post eight more deviants you wish to tag.5. Go to their page and leave a comment telling them they're tagged

1. I enjoy a nice setting, with lovely background music and a few friends to warm up the place.2. My all time favorite beer is Silva Black3. I love mountain hiking (Mtii. fagars & Mtii. Rarau this year).4. I also enjoy mountain biking, XC in general.5. I like listening to folk6. Drawing is a way for me to express myself... if words can't do it, graphite most certainly can.7. I'm not a very talkative person, though sometimes I so wish I could express myself easier.8. I practice aquascaping and try to study entomology as best as I can (hence my passion for butterflies).

So there they are, eight fact about me... more or less intereesting... you decide. And now, my time for tagging, I tag the following deviants:

Back from a couple of outdoor experiences... Dorna Xtrem 2007, where I hoped to participate at the XC category, too bad I couldn't because I had to catch the train home, because the next day, I left for Brasov... and went on up The Fagaras Mountains for 7 days... there were suppose to be 9 days, but the storm chased us down. It was a very nice experiance for this year's mountain trip... I did The Moldoveanu Peak at 2544m altitude, the highest peak in Romania. Lovely, wild and savage... there are the words to describe it, superb glaciar structures, lakes and cliffs... hard, but self-rewarding. A week worth living, where you experience extreme conditions, both phisical, psicological and weather. All in all, I'm glad to be back and having sorted all the messages, journals and deviations received. Keep those pencils sharp and don't stop dreaming on sheets of paper...

Happy to announce you that from now on I am a university student, in my fresh year. I got into the the faculty which I wanted and everything appears to go smooth with me for a while now.Lot's of big plans for the remaining summer weeks among which getting my bike ready for some serious mountain-biking, it's been a while. Also, my birthday is on the 1'st of next month so I invite you to grab a beer and Cheers!I have a lot of drawings on my mind and I hope to get them through as good as possible, 'cause the paper is ready, the pencils have been sharpened, lookout inspiration, here I come...Hope to see some more fabulous work from you guys as I have seen before, and keep the graphite flowing...

I am pleased to announce that I have finished my exam period and have received some nice results as well. All I have to d know I get the paperwork done for the university and deposit my application. I've also managed to slip a few drawings and sketches around, while having some study breaks, some better some worse, no matter. I have started to make plans for the summer, these inluding also a couple of nice drawings which I hope to finish soon, let's just hope they will meet some of your expectations.Thank you all for the comments, favs and watches. Bellow there three lista of my friends here on deviantART and also the clubs I am a member of.